RUMANIA: At Long Last

Crown Prince Carol of Rumania had just
turned 30 when he met her in 1924. According to one version, the
meeting took place at a ball in Bucharest's officers' club. According
to another, he saw her at the opera, and winked at her. According to a
third, she waited for his car to pass on a dark road near Bucharest,
her clothes disheveled as though she had been in an accident, and
permitted herself to be rescued. At any rate, Carol Hohenzollern fell
deeply in love with Elena Lupescu; she became his mistress,...